New Huntsville hospice facility will serve over 300 terminal patients each year

huntsvilleHUNTSVILLE: Hospice patients who need around-the-clock care in a setting outside their home will have a new inpatient option in Huntsville by 2017.

Redstone Village, Huntsville Hospital Foundation, Hospice Family Care and Huntsville Hospital broke ground Tuesday on a new 30,000-square-foot inpatient hospice facility at Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeCHICAGO: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.

But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively Read More »

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Libraries in skilled nursing homes can improve residents’ mood and memory

libraryNEW YORK: I hadn’t expected a group of women in their 70s in a library to be so boisterous. Nora has recited a ribald verse about a well-known current politician, with bright-eyed relish, while Jill offers wry self-mockery at her continuing failure to finish War and Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

trophyNEW YORK: The three hundred and sixty-eighth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.

The ribbon has been cut on a new 61-unit independent living facility for low-income seniors in the community of Pineridge in northeast Calgary.

But advocates are calling affordable Read More »

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